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String Theory and Cosmology (GRS)

Gordon Research Seminar

Accelerating Expansion and Cosmological Evolution in String Theory

June 15 - 16, 2019

Chairs Lars Aalsma and Evan McDonough

Rey Don Jaime Grand Hotel

Avinguda de l'Hotel

Castelldefels, B, Spain

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Conference Description

The Gordon Research Seminar on String Theory and Cosmology is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

The focus of this meeting is the realization of cosmological spacetimes within string theory, describing both the early universe's inflationary phase, its matter content and late-time dark energy domination. A primary goal will be to understand constructions of and obstructions to de Sitter vacua in string theory.

Related Meeting

This GRS will be held in conjunction with the "String Theory and Cosmology" Gordon Research Conference (GRC). Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRC in addition to an application for the GRS. Refer to the associated GRC program page for more information.

Conference Program

Saturday
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Arrival and Check-in
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm	Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm	Swampland Conjectures Discussion Leader: David Andriot (CERN, Switzerland)
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm	Miguel Montero (KU Leuven, Belgium) "The Weak Gravity Conjecture in de Sitter Space"
3:30 pm - 3:35 pm	Discussion
3:35 pm - 3:50 pm	Gerben Venken (KU Leuven, Belgium) "Holography and Supersymmetry in de Sitter Space"
3:50 pm - 3:55 pm	Discussion
3:55 pm - 4:00 pm	General Discussion
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Poster Session
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm	De Sitter Space: Landscape or Swampland Discussion Leader: Gerben Venken (KU Leuven, Belgium)
5:30 pm - 5:50 pm	Yashar Akrami (École Normale Supérieure, France) "Dark Energy Observations and Fundamental Physics: Current Status and Future Prospects"
5:50 pm - 6:00 pm	Discussion
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm	David Andriot (CERN, Switzerland) "Open Problems on Classical De Sitter Solutions"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm	Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm	Marco Scalisi (KU Leuven, Belgium) "De Sitter Vacua and the Swampland"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm	Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm	Vincent Van Hemelryck (KU Leuven, Belgium) "Towards a 10D Description of KKLT"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm	Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Dinner
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am	Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am	New Developments in Inflationary Cosmology Discussion Leader: Marco Scalisi (KU Leuven, Belgium)
9:00 am - 9:20 am	Evangelos Sfakianakis (National Institute for Subatomic Physics (NIKHEF) / Leiden University, The Netherlands) "Multi-Field Effects in α-Attractors and Beyond: Novel Inflationary Trajectories and Field-Space Curvature"
9:20 am - 9:30 am	Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am	Dong-Gang Wang (Leiden University, The Netherlands) "Shift-Symmetric Orbital Inflation"
9:50 am - 10:00 am	Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am	Ogan Ozsoy (Swansea University, United Kingdom) "Probing the Early Universe on Small Scales"
10:20 am - 10:30 am	Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am	Oliver Janssen (New York University, USA) "The Axidental Universe"
10:50 am - 11:00 am	Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm	Poster Session Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	The Dark Universe Discussion Leader: Ogan Ozsoy (Swansea University, United Kingdom)
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm	Elisa Ferreira (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Germany) "Unified Superfluid Dark Sector"
1:50 pm - 2:00 pm	Discussion
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm	Alvise Raccanelli (CERN, Switzerland) "Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter"
2:20 pm - 2:30 pm	Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Evaluation Period Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm	Seminar Concludes

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